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estimate was too low  Weather has become milder  Evening felt very tired.  Rested about half an hour then went to Anvil assembled at Hagemans.  Speaker.  C.F. Cox: The Moral influence of Darwinism.  An excellent paper.  I should like to see it printed.  Walked home with Tilsley.
March 7.  Sunday.  Mild weather beginning thaw.  Spent all day making plans for my laboratory.  Mr. Wacker came here to give some suggestions as to design of construction, modifying somewhat my own
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preliminary sketch.
March 8&9&10&11.  Making plans for new building and sundry work connected with clearing debris & reconstruction.
March 12.  Worked all day at various matters.  Afternoon 4 PM went to Columbia University to see Dr. [[underlined]] Wiechmanns work on Protal + Bakelite.  Found his work not very far advance.  He is still making buttons that cannot stand hot water, while I showed him in presence of his assistants a pipe stem of asbestos-Bakelite that I left boiling in a beakerglass without any injury. [[/underlined]]
Went with Wiechmann
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